Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1935 — Page 3

MARCH 22, 1935

CURRENCY PLAN 1 MAIN ISSUE IN COUGHLIN CREED

Rest of Priest's Program Described as ‘Mostly Trimmings/ BY FORRF.ST DAVIS Tim** 'i>* , ial Writ*r ROYAL OAK. Mich March 22 The R*v Charles E Coughlin gazes from th<* incredibly bold tower of LI”!* Flower Snrme over a limitless fia*. unaccented praine to a haz horizon. The landscape i r > Midwf ’em. Midwestern, likewise, is his political climate. He follows, with dogmatically pious Chr: tian metaphor, the broad trail of Grecnbacker. Populist and Or,mger. His is the tradition of - '• rrv S;mp- • n not of Debs. H.s gospel frightens Eastern bankers and bondholder,, but it strikes the ear of whea* farmer and mall-town merchant as the true-seen-in-the-spirit orthodoxy of Western radiWth significant qualifications. Father Coughlin is a magnified Milo Reno, the lowa farm-strike agitator. Each appeals to God and the Constitution; each wishes to lift from the back of the masses the burden imposed by a Wall Street Mammon. Wish to Reduce Debts The Royal Oak priest and the Des Moines insurance man alike wish more "pocket ’ money for the people. more money circulation, or inflation, as Wall Street describes it. They wish to cut down drastically deb* claims on Western producers, claims overwhelmingly held in the East. Father Coughlin's imprecatory eloquence is lifted. Sunday by Sunda’, on behalf of the Debtor West versus the Creditor East. His principal Issue, nationalization of the Federal Reservce System but not be it noted, the underlying bank structure) is a device for decentralizing control of the country's money and credit from the wicked "international bankers" in Wall Street into the forty-eight states. The rest of the National Union for Social Justice’s program is, if I may say so after a week's observation at the source, subsidiary and in the nature of trimmings. RrMin Was More Radical Probably not anywhere near as radical as the great commoner Bryans ideas were to be projected into 1935 The reformist priest seldom pauses in the work of proclaiming anew Jerusalem. Sunday by Sunday, to label his political philosophy. He is surer of what he is not than what he is. Thus, the earnest father knows he is not a hated Communist, nor a Socialist. He is almost equally certain he is not a Fascist. Nor is he what is loosely known as a reactionary. He does not refer to himself as liberal or progressive. In all truth, he and his cause bear little physical resemblance to Fascism. European style. Unlike Mussolini and Hitler, he supplies the National Union for Social Justice with no slogans, salutes, costumes. marching songs. ... He gives the union no practical organization. No attempt has been made to organize the members by township, county, city or state. Reported as Anti-Semitic Wholly satisfied with the democratic forms, he uses the urion solely for bloc pressure on Congress. His ideas may or may not partake of those of Fascism. Some, no doubt, parallel the rationalizations of European Fascisti. He is said to be ant Semit.c, but that is more a Nazi ihan a generic Fascistic chara teristic. The term Fascistic inexactly drfines political ideas. In any event. Father Coughlin's political methods are as far removed from Fascism as from Communism. He is no revolutionary, although, like tlv traditional agrarian reformers. he darkly prophesies social breakdown unless his palliatives prevail. Fails to Be Specific He Is as indefinite in what he promises his immense following as he is unspecific about his political classification. Unlike Huey Long and Dr Townsend, he offers no dollars-

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2100TH PUPIL REGISTERS AT WASHINGTON

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Jeanette Dudley (leftl and W. G. Gingery. Although Washington High School is overcrowded, it is always ready to welcome pupils with so fine a record as Miss Jeanette Dudley, a transfer from the Anderson <lnd.> High School. W. G. Gingery, Washington principal, has enrolled Miss Dudley as the 2100th pupil m the >chool. She had a fine record at Anderson.

MARTIN INSULL IS DEPORTED TO CANADA Former Avsociate of Brother in Utility Empire Leaves l'. S. Hv I’ntt* and Prrtt DETROIT. March 22.—Martin J. Insull. brother of Samuel Insull and his former associate in a $2.000 000.000 utility empire, today said goodbye to the United States, the country where he reached affluence and wealth. Immigration officials accompanied Insull through the tunnel under the Detroit River to Windsor and handed him over to Canadian authorities as an alien. With him was his attorney. Eli M. Aaron, of Chicago, who defended him in embezzlement trials. He was acquitted of the charges, but deported in compliance with terms of his extradition. SLOT MACHINES SEIZED HERE UNDER NEW LAW Deputy Sheriffs and State Police Conduct Raid on the Dells. Deputy sheriffs and state police confiscated three slot machines in a raid on the Dells, 38th-st and State Road 36. last night in the first attempt to enforce the new state anti-slot machine law in this county. Taking Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr., at his word, state police Wednesday seized several gambling machines in Boonville, the home community of Mr. Lutz. Mr. Lutz had told state enforcement officers that the slot machine must go. FORMER NOTRE DAME PRESIDENT IS DYING Last Rites of Church Given the Rev. John Cavanaugh. Pit Vnitrd Prrx* SOUTH BEND. Ind.. March 22 The Rev. John Cavanaugh, C. S. C., 64-vear-old former president of Notre Dame University, was critically ill today in the university infirmary. He has been ill several weeks. Last rites of the church were administered Wednesday night. and-cents moon with a fence around it. He is abstract where they are as clear and pointed as last week's grocery bill. That, to, identifies him with the old-style American radical. Father Coughlin deals, week by week in rather harsh principles. He is no utopian. The hope he offers the debt and tax-burdened, depressionridden farmer, merchant and worker is as generalized as the hope of a heavenly reward. The marvel of Father Coughlin is that with such vaguely comforting bait he attracts the multitude. Mussolini, Hitler. Lenin. Long. Townsend, all have offered tangible promised lands. Gospel Has Familiar Ring The readiest explanation of Father Coughlin's hold seems to lie m the hypothesis that his gospel lias a familiar ring. No radical in the sense that the La Follettes and Gov. Olsen may be, he speaks a language antedating theirs. He fights an ogre known to two generations of debt-owing western Americans, the "predatory plutocracy" of Wall Street. Ho is a 1935 style Populist, with chromium, urban trim: reassuring dogmatism and a dramatic delivery.

TEST TO BE HELD FOR SPEED POSTMASTERSHIP April 5 Fixed as Deadline for Filing Applications. The United States Civil Service Commission at Washington has announced April 5 as the last day for applications to be on file for the position of fourth class postmaster at Sneed. Examination for the contemjflated vacancy will be held in Jeffersonville. Compensation for the postmaster at the office was sllO for the last fiscal year. Post Down at Terre Haute Ptj t'nitrd Prrzs TERRE HAUTE. Ind., March 21. —Wiley Post, en route to the Pacific coast to start another attempt to cross the country through the stratosphere, was forced down here today by bad weather.

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NAZI DEFIANCE OF PEACE PACT SHOWN IN FILM

Armies of Young Germans on March; Mystery Plane Filmed. Armies of young men on the march again as Germany repudiates : the disarmament provision of the Versailles treaty are to be seen in the current issue of The Indianapolis Times Universal newsreel which has Graham McNamee, as its talking reporter. Vivid scenes as German cities echo to the tread of regimented feet show the leaders of Germany looking to man-power and heavier armaments on land and sea while the threat of war hangs over the old world. Ooher important events to be seen in the current reel include United States Army test of a “mystery” plane at Oakland, Cal.; the march of 25,000 Irish in honor of St. Patrick in New York City: Rep. Gassaway giving his views of Huey Long's program in a sensational inI terview in Washington, D. C.; scenes | of havoc at Pontotoc, Miss., where a tornado did $250,000 damages and Dallas, Texas, plunged into noonday darkness by a dust storm; a man in Los Angeles, suffering from parading the sands at the Roney Plaza in Miama Beach. Fla., in costumes woven from wood. Also included in the current issue are the birthday party at Universal City, Cal., during which Carl Laemmle greets many guests on the occasion of Universal’s twentieth anniversary on the west coast; Wiley Post landing in Cleveland, after an unsuccessful attempt to span the continent in seven hours; hard headed wrestlers in Paris in a catch-as-catch-can match; and a large squad of Notre Dame grid aspirfants turning out for spring football practice at South Bend.

SLAYER OF FATHER

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This child of 11 is held in Buffalo (N. Y.) jail as his father's slayer as authorities prepare to use his testimony in an effort to send his mother to the electric chair as the instigator. Richard Kloes (above) shot his father, John, as he sat in his home reading. Police claim notes from the mother told the boy how and when to kill his parent.

CABARET PARTY WILL BE STAGED BY SHRINE Organizations' Seek Funds for Trip to Meeting in Washington. Local Shrine organisations will stage a cabaret party open to the general public in the main room of the Murat Temple tomorrow night. Russ Heller's orchestra will provide music for dancing, and Karl L. Frederichs, general chairman, says the floor show features will be new in Indianapolis. Proceeds will augment funds to send Indianapolis Shrincrs to the national meeting in Washington next June.

SUNDAY CLOSING WARNING GIVEN BY SHERIFF RAY

Law to Be Enforced at Once in This County, Official Says. Marion County* taverns and roadhouses will be compelled to observe Sunday closing hours beginning this week-end. it was announced today by Sheriff Otto Ray. Enforcement of the new Indiana liquor laws was ordered by Sheriff Ray upon receipt of a copy of the laws from John F. Linder, county attorney. Under the new law, places selling liquor must close at 1 a. m. on week-days and 2 a. m. on Sunday with opening hours set at 6 a. m. on week days and 6 a. m. Monday on week-ends. Many night dubs outside the city have been carrying advertisements stating that they were closed all day Sunday. City grills, those selling liquor, were in many cases closed last Sunday. City police made one arrest for liquor sale after hours in University Heights. GIRL VICTIM OF BRUTAL ATTACK IS RECOVERING Miss Storey’s Condition Greatly Improved, Says Doctor. i Miss Lavina Rae Storey, who was dangerously wounded by the icej pick attack of a Negro houseman | two weeks ago. is gradually gaming in health, ner physician, Dr. K. K. Kraning, reported today, describing her as well on the way toward recovery. Physicians have not been able to determine yet whether it will be necessary to remove the eye which was stabbed by her assailant, Ben- | jamin Gray, 45. Gray is serving a I 41-year term in Indiana State I Prison for the attack.

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Calvin Prather Masonic Lodge will hold a bridge party at 8 tonight at the Riviera Club, with Fred V. Ferree as chairman.

BOY SCOUT TRAINING SCHOOL TO OPEN HERE Classes to Be Held Each Monday Night at Church. A spring training course in boy leadership and troop management sponsored by the Indianapolis Boy Scout Council will begin Mondaynight at the Central Christian Church. Walnut and Delaware-sts. Graduation night will be May 6. Classes will be held each Monday night. Teachers and their courses will include Sidney R. Esten. bird study; C. D. Bird and G. O. Martz, fundamentals of troop and patrol organization; W. H. Wheeler, advanced organization work; F. O. Belzer, ! Scout executive, theory of Scout training; W- D. Hamer, troop com- : mitteemen duties, and Fritz M. Ehling, first aid. S. L. Norton, assistant Scout executive, will be su--1 pervisor of the school.

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HARRY HOPKINS SERVES ’NOTICE' ON POLITICIANS ‘Keep Fingers Out of Gur Business,' Relief Chief Demands. Pit I’nitrd Prrtt WASHINGTON. March 22.-Re-j lief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins today gave notice to politicians the | country over “to keep your fingers out of our business" of feeding and | clothing the nation's needy. “We won't tolerate political meddling." he said with characteristic bluntness. “Whenever the playing of politics gets into relief in any j state. I mean to get rid of it —and damned fast too." Mr. Hopkins said his stand had been approved by the White House. PWA investigators have been I checking records for months to prevent graft on projects financed by Federal money. Their reports rej suited yesterday in indictment of j seven men in connection with an alleged plot to defraud the government in a $4,835,000 Texas irrigation project. The seven engineers and contractors were charged with conspiring to use 250 miles of California redwood pipe in a project under which original PWA plans called for a simple gravity system. I District Attorney John W. Fihelly said the men would be brought to Washington for arraignment and | trial as early as possible. Mr. Hopkins said he would act j “as speedily and forcefully as we did i in Ohio" where Federal investi- ; gators produced a set of affidavits accusing the Democratic State Committee of soliciting campaign funds i lor Gov. Martin L. Davey from in- ! dividuals and firms doing business I with the local relief administration.